Supply Chain And The 3G Effect

Chief Supply Chain Officers are still a fairly new phenomenon. Compared to more established C-level roles such as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer, the idea of a board-level executive in charge of all source, make and deliver functions remains novel...

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Lakshman Achuthan, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer, of ECRI just released an exceptional 9-page document on supply chains and decoupling called The Yo-Yo Years.
Here are a few snips but those bullish on emerging markets, commodity producers, as well as those who think the US is going to decouple from the global economy should take the time to read the entire document.

Canadian National Railway Co. said Monday it has significantly ramped up its grain shipments in recent weeks. But the country’s largest railway said it needs help from its supply chain partners to reach Ottawa’s new requirements that it move 500,000 metric tons of grain a week.
“Blaming railways alone – or even worse, threatening to punish them with re-regulation for an outsized crop and winter conditions beyond their control – will not help to move any more grain, now or over the longer term,” said Claude Mongeau, CN chief executive.

ReutersUber has 14,000 employees, many of which are engineers, so it's no surprise that the company that built one of the most ubiquitous ride sharing apps also built its own internal chat app after running into issues with existing chat apps on the market.

As with many other areas of the economy, the digital revolution is having a profound effect on delivery logistics.
The combination of mobile computing, analytics, and cloud services, all of which are fueled by the Internet of Things (IoT), is changing how delivery and fulfillment companies are conducting their operations.

Outgoing Toronto police chief Bill Blair on Friday gave his officers new orders on how to engage and document non-criminal interactions with the public in a set of directives that pleased the police union, but left members of the black community disappointed and concerned.
Officials spoke of the pair of documents — a recast board policy, and the accompanying chief instructions to rank and file — in lofty terms on Friday, with the chief calling it a “remarkable milestone” and Mayor John Tory describing it as an “important landmark.”

By Mobile Guru: Supply chain management (SCM) is defined as the management of the flow of goods. It includes the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption. Interconnected or interlinked networks, channels and node businesses are involved in the provision of products and services required by end customers in a supply chain.